Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its own Dust Artist Concept
A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang in this artist concept based on data from Spitzer Space Telescope.
- Date
- 2010-10-12
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- illustration (NASA artwork)
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"Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its own Dust Artist Concept" (2010-10-12). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13478Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16390.
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